With a view to bringing in fairness and transparency, banks are advised that they must transparently disclose to the borrower all information about fees/charges payable for processing the loan application, the amount of fees refundable if loan amount is not sanctioned/disbursed, pre-payment options and charges, if any, penalty for delayed repayments if any, conversion charges for switching loan from fixed to floating rates or vice versa, existence of any interest reset clause and any other matter which affects the interest of the borrower. Such information should also be displayed in the website of the banks for all categories of loan products.
In this connection, we enclose a copy of the circular DPSS. (CO). EPPD. No.863 / 04.03.01 / 2010-11 dated October 14, 2010 issued by the Department of Payment and Settlement Systems of the Reserve Bank of India. All Primary (Urban) Co-operative Banks are advised to put in place appropriate systems and procedures to ensure compliance with the prescriptions contained in the above circular.
(i) These regulations may be called the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Issue of Capital and Disclosure Requirements) (Fourth Amendment) Regulations, 2010. (ii) These regulations shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
The matter has since been reviewed in the context of the need to further facilitate market making activities of the standalone PDs in corporate bonds. Accordingly, it has been decided to enhance the exposure limits of the standalone PDs from 15 per cent to 25 per cent of their NOF to single borrower and from 25 per cent to 40 per cent of their NOF to group borrowers.
The instructions have now been consolidated and a comprehensive calendar of reviews to be placed before ACBs is given in the Annex. It is emphasized that the calendar outlines the critical minimum requirements of review and the bank Boards will have discretion to prescribe additional reviews to suit their requirements.
Based on requests received from the participant member banks, it is clarified that the revised customer charges for the transactions routed through RTGS are applicable for amounts starting from ` 2 lakhs and above.
In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 45 W of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 and in partial modification of the notification No IDMD.DOD. 04/11.08.38/2009-10 dated January 8, 2010, the Reserve Bank hereby makes the following amendments in the Repo in Corporate Debt Securities (Reserve Bank) Directions, 2010 dated 8th January 2010 (hereinafter referred to as the said Directions) namely.
As stated in the Reserve Bank’s press release issued on November 09, 2010, in line with the stance of monetary policy set out in the Second Quarter Review of November 2, 2010 and in order to provide liquidity comfort arising out of frictional liquidity pressure, it has been decided that scheduled commercial banks may avail of additional liquidity support under the Liquidity Adjustment Facility (LAF) to the extent of up to 1.0 per cent of their Net Demand and Time Liabilities (NDTL) as on the reporting Friday of the second preceding fortnight. For any shortfall in maintenance of Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR) during November 9 – December 16, 2010.
This circular is issued in exercise of powers conferred under Section 11 (1) of the Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992, read with the provisions of Regulation 77 of SEBI (Mutual Funds) Regulations, 1996, to protect the interests of investors in securities and to promote the development of, and to regulate the securities market.
Competition Commission of India (General) Amendment Regulations, 2010 – Amendment in regulations 18,20,21 and 31 Notification No. L-3(2)/Regln- Gen. (Amdt.)/2009-10/CCI, dated 20-10-2010 issued by Competition Commission of India In exercise of the powers conferred by section 64 of the Competition Act, 2002 (12 of 2003), the Competition Commission of India hereby makes the following regulations […]
